ok, so, wow, uh, it's like every single sentence in that piece is vying with all other sentences to be more preposterous than the last. it'd be hard to pick a favourite. in fact, i just deleted two that i wanted to share. really, this whole damn thing is.. is... wow. so worth the read ^^
oh, and the list of "most blessed today" down along the side just looks priceless! XD

There had been a string of minor quakes for a while in that area. To investigate if this would continue the government formed a special committee to assess the risk. And the committee's findings were generally reassuring, one week before the quake hit and killed some dudes.

So it's not so much just anybody you can sue for being falsely reassuring, it's experts who are explicitly hired to assess the risk and get it wrong.

Not that this makes it any better. Still a pretty stupid outcome. But, you know, Italy. Their government and courts are pretty infamous. Look up some of the stats at the European Court of Justice, Italy scores bad.

What you need to understand about the apocalypse is that you aren't Mad Max. You're part of the skull pyramid in the background.

Then maybe De Bernardinis is at fault for incorrectly channelling the scientists' ignorance (and they are necessarily ignorant, being that predicting earthquakes is not really possible with any relevant degree of certainty). The scientists themselves have no business at all in that trial.

Quote:Merry Christmas? Ugandan Speaker of Parliament promises the draconian anti-gay (Kill the gays) bill will pass before the end of 2012, and will be a Christmas gift for Uganda’s Christian community.

On Monday, November 12, Ugandan Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told The Associated Press that Uganda's anti-gay bill will be passed before the end of 2012 despite vigorous and vocal international criticism of the odious legislation.

Kadaga insists it is what most Ugandans want: Ugandans "are demanding it," she said.

Last Friday Kadaga met with Ugandan anti-gay activists who spoke of "the serious threat" posed by homosexuals to Uganda's children. Some Christian clerics at the meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, asked the speaker to pass the law as "a Christmas gift."

Gay Star News reports the law will broaden the criminalization of same-sex relationships by dividing homosexuality into two categories; aggravated homosexuality and the offense of homosexuality. ‘Aggravated homosexuality’ is defined as gay acts committed by parents or authority figures, HIV-positive people, pedophiles and repeat offenders. If convicted, they will face the death penalty. The ‘offense of homosexuality’ includes same-sex sexual acts or being in a gay relationship, and will be prosecuted by life imprisonment.